Sunday 14 April 2013

Under the bludgeonings of chance

I have not had the greatest of times of late, and it makes the optimistic tone of my previous blog entry seem cloyingly naive. As I read it through before starting to write this one I felt almost embarrassed at myself.

Needless to say I'm not in a happy place right now. I'm certainly not doing any writing. I'm not in the right mindset and I don't think anyone would enjoy anything I wrote if I was.

I've spent my time this week trying to correct this little hiccup in my life, and as I've been doing so I've found myself bewildered at the places my mind has gone. When things calm down in the evenings and my mind is at some measure of rest, an inordinate amount of my thoughts have been settling on the Mass Effect series. For reasons that entirely escape me. Maybe because they're games portraying a character trying to maintain control of a desperately spiralling situation and I currently feel some affinity for that. I don't know.

In any case, I'm sure there's a Comfy Chair article about it in me. If I do write something about Mass Effect it'll be a challenge not to let it turn into a Jennifer Hale love fest. Mark Meer is not Commander Shepard.

But not right now. I have more pressing matters to attend to for the time being. Hopefully in a few weeks I'll be feeling more ready to get stuck into some writing. I have a list of things to do a mile long. Maybe once things straighten themselves out I can give myself the kick up the arse I've probably needed for a good long while.